BREAKING THE BARRIERS TO THE NATIONAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE

[David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

Date: Fri, 15 Jul 94 11:43:11 EDT
From: Erich Bloch <ebloch () nsf gov>


        David, as you know the Council on Competitiveness is
organizing a major symposium/demonstration on NII applications for the
Fall of 1994. Suzy Tichener of the Council has been managing and
originating the proceedings.


        We thought your readership would be interested and want to
attend.


        Erich










BREAKING THE BARRIERS TO THE NATIONAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE


     The Council on Competitiveness and the Clinton Administration's
Information Infrastructure Task Force invite you to participate in a
conference focusing on the applications being  developed to run on the
national information infrastructure.  Come explore the implementation
hurdles that users and application developers are experiencing as they
create and deploy new applications in health care, education,
manufacturing, electronic information management and commerce as well
as entertainment/home services.


     Panels of experts will share the lessons they are learning as
they grapple with financing issues, contend with legal, policy and
regulatory issues, probe market demand for new applications and services,
and cope with the changes individuals and organizations are facing  as
they attempt to embrace these new applications and incorporate them into
their environment. There will also be a series of hands-on demonstrations
so that conference attendees can more readily grasp the personal benefits
this robust infrastructure will deliver.  Ample time will be allocated
for interaction between conference attendees, panelists and
demonstrators.


     A conference registration form is attached to the end of this
document. You may also obtain a copy of the registration form by
calling our automated fax system at 908-885-6758.


               PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE SCHEDULE


WEDNESDAY, September 7, 1994


7:30 am - 8:30 am   REGISTRATION


8:30 am - 9:00 am   WELCOME
     John Young - Chairman, Smart Valley, Inc.
     Ronald H. Brown - Secretary of Commerce


9:00 am - 11:30 am  HEALTHCARE APPLICATIONS
     Moderator:  Michael Wood, MD - Mayo Foundation
     Speakers:  Stanley Fowler, PhD - University of South
          Carolina Medical School
     David Gustafson, MD - University of Wisconsin
     Julian Rosenman, MD - University of North Carolina School
          of Medicine
     Helen Smits, MD -  U.S. Department of Health and Human
          Services
     .....more to come


11:30 am - 1:00 pm  LUNCHEON
     Jim Manzi - Chairman and CEO, Lotus Development
          Corporation


1:00 pm - 1:45 pm   BREAK/Showcase Demonstrations***


1:45 pm - 3:30 pm   ELECTRONIC INFORMATION MANAGEMENT & COMMERCE
                         APPLICATIONS
     Moderator:  Daniel Schutzer - Vice President and Director
          for Advanced Technology, Citibank
     Speakers: Carol Christian - Professor of Astro  Physics,
          University of California at Berkeley and the
          National Information Infrastructure Testbed
     Alan Kerry - President and CEO, Image Works
     Jim Mulvaney - Senior Consultant, Electric Power Research
          Institute
     Randy Rehn - Information Express Manager, Nordstrom
     .....more to come


3:30 pm - 5:00 pm   MANUFACTURING APPLICATIONS
     Moderator:  Al Narath - President, Sandia National
          Laboratories
     Speakers:  Dale Hougardy - Vice President, Operations,
          Boeing Commercial Airplane Group
     Henry Morneau - Director of the Scientific Computing
          Division, DuPont
     Thomas Patterson - Director, Information Security,
          Microelectronics and Computer Technology
          Corporation (MCC)
     William Ranson - Southeast Manufacturing Technology
          Center, University of South Carolina
     .....more to come


5:00 pm - 7:00 pm   RECEPTION/ Showcase Demonstrations***


7:00 pm         DINNER
     Michael Metz - Managing Director, Oppenheimer & Co.




THURSDAY, September 8, 1994


8:00 am - 10:00 am  EDUCATION APPLICATIONS
     Moderator:  Linda Roberts - Special Advisor on Education
          Technology, Department of Education
     Speakers:  Lionel Baldwin - President, National Technical
          University
     Thomas Highton - Superintendent of Schools, Union City, NJ
     Jacqueline Shrago - Director, Office of Technology
          Transfer, Vanderbilt University
     Connie Stout - Director, Texas Education Network
     Leona Williams - President and CEO, Educational and
          Corporate Technologies, Inc.


10:00 am - 11:30 am    ENTERTAINMENT & HOME SERVICES APPLICATIONS
     Moderator:   John Cooke - President, The Disney Channel
     Speakers:  Gene Quinn - General Manager, Chicago On-line
     Michael Sherlock - Executive Vice President, Technology,
          NBC
     Stephen Tomlin - Vice President and General Manager,
     Interactive Technology, QVC, Inc.
     .....more to come


11:30 am - 1:00 pm  LUNCHEON
     Albert Gore, Jr. - Vice President of the United States
          (invited)


1:00pm - 1:45 pm    IITF REPORT:  PUTTING THE INFORMATION
                         INFRASTRUCTURE TO WORK
     Arati Prabhakar - Chair, Committee on Applications and
          Technology and Director, National Institute of
          Standards and Technology


1:45 pm - 3:00 pm   MODERATOR PANEL:  UNDERSTANDING THE
                         IMPLEMENTATION BARRIERS
     Chair:  Charles Vest - President, Massachusetts Institute
          of Technology


3:00 pm - 4:00 pm   CLOSING SPEAKER


*** There will be 25 INTERACTIVE, HANDS-ON DEMONSTRATIONS ongoing
throughout the two-day conference.  These demonstrations have been
selected to reflect how the National Information Infrastructure will
influence your  everyday life.  We invite you to experience: real-time
remote medical consultations, a ride in an intelligent car, home-based
medical support programs, cable delivered and on-line learning tools
for both teachers and students, a crime prevention communications system,
the manufacturing of your next automobile, and many more leading-edge
demonstrations.




DEMONSTRATIONS:


THE ADVANCED DRIVER AND VEHICLE ADVISORY NAVIGATION CONCEPT
(ADVANCE) DEMONSTRATION - This demonstration will allow conference
participants to take a ride in an intelligent vehicle that delivers
real-time traffic information to drivers.  This project is a
public/private partnership to evaluate in-vehicle route guidance.


PINE RIDGE INDIAN RESERVATION TELEMEDICINE PROJECT - Conference
participants will witness physicians at the conference performing a
remote evaluation of a patient with heart disease in Pine Ridge, South
Dakota. This real-time connection will be via the NASA ACTS satellite.
Physicians will demonstrate the remote use of an electronic
stethoscope for listening to the heart sounds, an ultrasound, and an
electrocardiogram.  Conference participants will be able to converse
with the patient.


BILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUY INTERACTIVE PROGRAM - Through this
demonstration, the conference attendees will view a future interactive
children's TV program on science education.  Conference attendees will
be "at-home" participants of on-line experiments, quizzes, games, and
various other activities.


ONLINE SERVICES- The presentation will take the audience through many
information, shopping and interactive online services available
including that text of a daily newspaper, event ticket purchasing and
electronic mail capabilities.  Attendees will be given an opportunity
to individually experiment with the system.


DYNAMIC RADIATION THERAPY PLANNING - A physician will walk
conference participants through a real-time demonstration of radiation
treatment planning for cancerous tumors.  The audience will see a
computer rendering of the anatomy and real-time calculation of
radiation dose distribution using a remotely located supercomputer.


MANUFACTURING IN THE INFORMATION AGE - Through a real-time
connection, conference participants will be able to remotely control
certain elements of the manufacturing process at a fully automated
General Motors automobile assembly plant located in Wilmington,
Delaware.


INTERPRACTICE - This application will highlight for conference
participants an electronic environment (paperless system) for
practicing physicians and clinical staff.  This system allows medical
personnel to capture, store and communicate patient medical
information in real time.  It also includes on-line order placement
(lab, pharmacy, etc.), referral prompts, clinical reminders, and
allergy or medical alerts. This demonstration will also allow
attendees to explore the next generation voice activated,
intelligent InterPractice System.


GLOBAL SCHOOLHOUSE - Conference participants will be able to
participate in an interactive/video conferencing link between several
K-12 schools. Global Schoolhouse will show how these students use
these advanced video tools to work and learn together with students,
teachers, and scientists in other locations.


NATIONAL CATASTROPHIC OIL SPILL MANAGEMENT - This demonstration will
allow conference participants to view a state-of-the-art emergency
management response tool that is used in the event of an oil spill.
This system integrates multiple facets of an oil-spill response
effort:  initial response decisions, damage mitigation actions,
environmental, social and economic threat assessments, and equipment
procurement efforts.


HEALTHNET - This demonstration will show conference participants a
prototype interactive television application that provides health care
information. Conference participants will be able to select
informational segments on such topics as breast cancer treatment
options; the long-term effects of divorce on children; fitness for
women; nutrition for men; and coping with depression.


EDUPORT - Conference participants will explore the use of a digital
multimedia library designed to enhance K-12 education.  They will be
able to access video, audio, image and text information from various
sources including the Discovery Museum, NASA, FDR Library, and the
Smithsonian.


WIRELESS IMAGERY COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM FOR CRIME INFORMATION - This
demonstration will illustrate to participants a highly visual and
interactive system that provides law enforcement officials on patrol
the ability to accurately identify a wanted, missing or unidentified
person within seconds.  This device is used to transmit images of
fingerprints, mug shots, stolen objects, contraband & personal
property between state, local and federal public service and emergency
management agencies.


MATHLINE - Participants will be able to see the power of public
television's telecommunications highway as it delivers professional
development services to teachers throughout the nation in support of
Goals 2000.  The demonstration will feature on-line dialogue among
teachers in this electronic learning community who are helping each
other to meet Professional Teaching Standards.


ELECTRIC UTILITY INFORMATION NETWORK - This demonstration will
walk participants through a comprehensive information system that is
used by the entire electric power industry to provide high-value
internal information services.   At a work station, participants will be
able to see how collaborative research is being done as information is
traded and received over the network.


VARIATIONS IN MUSIC - A digital music library will enable conference
participants to select audio and visual recordings for review directly
from workstations and will provide them the ability to quickly select
specific passages for listening or viewing. This tool has been
developed to augment the music curriculum at Indiana University.


PICTURE EXCHANGE - Conference participants will witness a new method
that many advertising agencies and graphic designers are using to
obtain wider access to a variety of work done by photographers.  These
pictures are stored in an on-line library and are ready for rapid
brokerage between photographer and agency.


THE COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH ENANCEMENT SUPPORT SYSTEM (CHESS) -
This home-based workstation demonstration will showcase how some
hospitals have opted to provide health care consumers with the
information, referrals, decision support and social support specific
to certain illnesses such as cancer and aids.  This system is being
successfully used to assist patients in the management of their own
disease and health care.


CO-VIS - This demonstration will showcase three students, located at
the conference, as they study environmental and atmospheric science
using collaborative work benches that provide interactive desk-top
videoconferencing capabilities.  These capabilities will allow them to
work with other students located in Indiana, professors at
Northwestern University, and researchers at the Center for Atmospheric
Studies in San Diego.


..........MORE TO COME
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BREAKING THE BARRIERS TO THE NATIONAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE
September 7-8, 1994   ***   ANA Hotel, Washington, DC


REGISTRATION FORM


(please print or type)


Name__________________________________________________________


Title_________________________________________________________


Organization__________________________________________________


Address_______________________________________________________


Phone/Fax_____________________________________________________


Two-Day Conference Fee:


     _________   Corporate ($395)


     _________   Government/Academic/Nonprofit ($295)






Please enclose this registration form along with a check made payable
to the:  COUNCIL ON COMPETITIVENESS, a private, nonprofit 501 (c)(3)
organization.  Mail your registration to:


     900 17th Street, NW  Suite 1050
     Washington, DC 20006
     Phone:  (202) 785-3990
     Fax:  (202) 785-3998


REGISTRATION POLICY:  Space available in a first come first served basis
CANCELLATION POLICY:  No refunds after August 1, 1994




Hotel Accommodations


     The ANA Hotel is providing special rates for conference
participants.  Participants must make their reservations with the ANA
Hotel no later than August 15, 1994.  When making reservations please
reference the Council on Competitiveness to obtain the special group
rate.


          ANA Hotel
          2401 M Street, NW
          Washington, DC 20037
          Phone:  (202) 429-2400
          Fax:  (202) 457-5010


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     The Council on Competitiveness is a nonprofit, nonpartisan
organization of chief executives from business, higher education and
organized labor who have joined together to pursue a single overriding
goal:  to improve the ability of American companies and workers to
compete in world markets while building a rising standard of living at
home.  Paul Allaire, Chairman and CEO of Xerox Corporation, is the
Council's Chairman.


     The Clinton Administration's Information Infrastructure Task
Force (IITF) consists of high level representatives of the Federal
agencies that play a major role in the development and application of
information technologies.  Working together with the private sector, the
Task Force  is coordinating Administration efforts to develop,
demonstrate and promote applications of information technology,
formulating Administration positions on key telecommunications issues,
and addressing critical information policy issues.  Secretary of Commerce
Ronald H. Brown is the chairman of the IITF.








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